Splinter group made claim in statement to pro-Kurdish website

ISTANBUL—Kurdish militants claimed responsibility on Sunday for a deadly car bomb attack that hit a Turkish police station last Friday as the country’s top Kurdish lawmakers suspended participation in parliament, setting the stage for more violence in response to an expansive government crackdown on dissent.

A splinter Kurdish group, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks, known as the TAK, said that it carried out last week’s attack, which...